Tuesday, February 3, 2015

Event Update For 2015-02-02

The seas, lakes and oceans are now pluming deadly hydrogen sulfide and suffocating methane. Hydrogen sulfide is a highly toxic water-soluble heavier-than-air gas and will accumulate in low-lying areas. Methane is slightly more buoyant than normal air and so will be all around, but will tend to contaminate our atmosphere from the top down. These gases are sickening and killing oxygen-using life all around the world, including human life, as our atmosphere is increasingly poisoned. Because both gases are highly flammable and because our entire civilization is built around fire and flammable fuels, this is leading to more fires and explosions. This is an extinction level event and will likely decimate both the biosphere and human population and it is debatable whether humankind can survive this event.

A. More fires and more explosions, especially along the coasts, but everywhere generally.
B. Many more animal die-offs, of all kinds, and especially oceanic species.
C. More multiples of people will be found dead in their homes, as if they'd dropped dead.
D. More corpses found in low-lying areas, all over the world.
E. More unusual vehicular accidents.
F. Improved unemployment numbers as people die off.

Note: Not really buying the 'weather-related' excuse, blaming snow and salt, seeing as these events were happening all this past spring, summer and fall too. I did mention back then that they'd trot that excuse out again as soon as there was snow, and here we are, so I'll have to give them a solid A+ for predictability...

Quote: "Many Escanaba residents awoke Monday to find themselves without power after an explosion at a nearby utility plant substation. Around 1:30 a.m. Feb. 2, an explosion at an Escanaba Power Plant substation caused widespread power outages across the city, according to the Escanaba City Electric Department."

Quote: "The cause of the explosion is unknown but lightning from a severe electrical storm has been ruled out."

Quote: "A second person has died after a transformer exploded at a Perth shopping centre causing a fire. A witness has told how she saw four people 'burning from head to toe' as they fled the Galleria Shopping Centre at Morley just before 10am."

Note: Not looking good! Hydrogen sulfide is a heavier-than-air gas, so it will seep into underground areas and cause fires and explosions. It's also reactive with copper, especially electrified copper, and that's causing fires and explosions involving electrified copper, like parked vehicles and porch lights and such igniting. The most devastating underground fire/explosion event so far was when the sewer system exploded and burned at midnight in Kaohsiung on the island of Taiwan, tearing apart entire streets and killing at least 24 people and injuring at least 270 people, mentioned in the 2014-07-31 update...

Quote: "Firefighters said a car caught fire in the carport of a house off Highway 68 Monday morning, engulfing two homes around 5:30 a.m. Neighbors saw the fire and alerted the residents. No one was hurt, but both houses are a total loss."

Note: Sorta like a sniper killing two people with one bullet, here are two homes destroyed by one car fire. People still park cars near their homes?! Crrrrrazy...

Quote: "Scientists have expressed alarm at a recent spike in dolphin strandings which has seen almost 20 of the animals recovered on Irish shores in the last month. The number of common dolphins stranded throughout the country since October is close to the amount that should be expected for an entire year, according to marine biologist Dr Simon Berrow."

Quote: "Dispatch said a car ran into the bridge's guardrail and then caught fire. At least one person has been injured, Richmond County Dispatch said. South Carolina Highway Patrol said the person was able to get out of the car. Aiken County Dispatch said a second accident happened shortly after the first one."

Note: Possibly a genetic chimera, a blending of two species. If so then it looks like this one may have some human genes in it. They'd best hope that this is a one-off and that there's not a breeding colony of these things established in the area...

Quote: "The roughly 100 residents of St. George were worried about the sudden earthquakes, Mayor Patrick Pletnikoff said Monday. 'Holy moly, it gets you thinking about what's going on with the environment out here,' Pletnikoff said. Pletnikoff, 67, was born and raised on the island. He said he can't recall ever feeling an earthquake before Friday."

[maybe some GOOD news for CA]'Pineapple Express' organizing for heavy rain in California - as much as 20 inches in some areas

Elephant tramples boy to death in Bangladesh

[High Strangeness]

Alien abduction or accidental awareness?[begins]A recent article in the November 11 issue of Scientific American claims that alien abductions might be nothing more than "accidental awareness" caused by psychological damage inflicted upon a patient who awakens too soon while undergoing surgery. This hypothesis is presented by Anne Skomorowsky, Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at Columbia University and Psychosomatic Medicine Specialist at the New York-Presbyterian Hospital.

[i'm sure you saw this one - it's all over the news and freaky; Society's Child section - check out the rest of this section for some crazy shit]

(CNN)Passengers aboard a United Airlines flight from Chicago to Denver got sick from a cabin pressure issue that forced a quick landing, according to an airline spokeswoman.

United Airlines Flight 1218 took off at 9:01 a.m., but shortly after it reached 15,000 feet, the pilot took it below 10,000 feet and returned to O'Hare International Airport, according to tracking website FlightAware.com.

Below 10,000 feet is a safe altitude for an unpressurized plane.

"The flight landed safely, and we requested paramedics meet the flight to assist a few customers who reported feeling ill," said United Airlines spokeswoman Karen May.

Seven ambulances met the plane and 175 patients complaining of ear pain or nausea were checked out, according to the Chicago Fire Department.

No passengers or crew were taken to the hospital.

"Maintenance is inspecting the aircraft as we accommodate the customers," May said in the statement.

FAA officials are also investigating the circumstances of the landing.

The plane, a Boeing 737-900, is almost brand new. Records show it was delivered to United in March of last year. [there's a little more]

[that's the 2nd "new" plane to have problems - the other one crashed in Taiwan]

James Holmes jury candidate released after falling to her knees, crying and pulling out chunks of hair

There was a bizarre scene on Tuesday morning in Arapahoe County Court as the jury selection continues in the Aurora theater shooting trial.

A woman answered her summonses with a child. She said the child is one of two children she babysits.

The woman told the court the child has not been immunized for measles and couldn't go to day care.

She asked to be excused but was rescheduled for another day. That's when she fell to knees, crying and pulling chunks of her hair out.

At that point she was released from jury.

She was one of 66 potential jurors who were released on Tuesday morning.

Tuesday's incident came after two other prospective jurors previously showed up intoxicated. Another one was high and at least one person had to leave in an ambulance violently ill. Despite all the incidents, the jury selection process is moving more quickly than expected and individual questioning should begin next week.

James Holmes is charged with killing 12 people and injuring 70 more at a movie theater in Aurora in July 2012.

[sott.net's author comment in blue box:

Comment: It's quite interesting that technology exists that can create this sort of neural disruption people.]

Here's something that many Americans -- including some of the smartest and most educated among us -- don't know: The official unemployment rate, as reported by the U.S. Department of Labor, is extremely misleading.

Right now, we're hearing much celebrating from the media, the White House and Wall Street about how unemployment is "down" to 5.6%. The cheerleading for this number is deafening. The media loves a comeback story, the White House wants to score political points and Wall Street would like you to stay in the market.

None of them will tell you this: If you, a family member or anyone is unemployed and has subsequently given up on finding a job -- if you are so hopelessly out of work that you've stopped looking over the past four weeks -- the Department of Labor doesn't count you as unemployed. That's right. While you are as unemployed as one can possibly be, and tragically may never find work again, you are not counted in the figure we see relentlessly in the news -- currently 5.6%. Right now, as many as 30 million Americans are either out of work or severely underemployed. Trust me, the vast majority of them aren't throwing parties to toast "falling" unemployment.

There's another reason why the official rate is misleading. Say you're an out-of-work engineer or healthcare worker or construction worker or retail manager: If you perform a minimum of one hour of work in a week and are paid at least $20 -- maybe someone pays you to mow their lawn -- you're not officially counted as unemployed in the much-reported 5.6%. Few Americans know this.

Yet another figure of importance that doesn't get much press: those working part time but wanting full-time work. If you have a degree in chemistry or math and are working 10 hours part time because it is all you can find -- in other words, you are severely underemployed -- the government doesn't count you in the 5.6%. Few Americans know this.

There's no other way to say this. The official unemployment rate, which cruelly overlooks the suffering of the long-term and often permanently unemployed as well as the depressingly underemployed, amounts to a Big Lie. [read the rest]

Heh, I have never taken the unemployment figures seriously. That said, people dying does improve unemployment, since each dead worker needs to be replaced with a living person, and each unemployed person looking for a job who dies is no longer looking for a job. On the other hand, a lot of businesses are getting destroyed by fires and explosions too, and fewer people will drain demand and eventually that will cause deflation. If anyone around even cares about such things by then.

My local area has gone berserk with underground infrastructure work lately. My street's all torn up, a bigger street nearby has work going on, and yet another major street nearby is going to be closed for three weeks this month while they put in a new 90-inch sewer pipe. Last year my entire area got new utility poles and electrical stuff too. New underground stuff, new electrical stuff - not gonna complain!